Gary Lineker's brilliant, heartfelt tribute to Diego Maradona

Maradona is totally overrated. Had he been here today, CR7 would surely have overshined him by miles. The same goes for Pele, by the way. Football was not as skillfull,physical or athleticly demanding as it is today.

There are footballers and then there are footballers then there is Diego...or to us he is just D10S !!!

Bang .. Bang

Absolutely nice guy Gary is. No cards in his lifetime. What a advertisment for football

Top lad Gary.

Maradona, always my hero!!!

3 months man... time is going so fast and so many of my heros are passing away... this is bullshit. Im scared of people like John Rhys-Davies going soon also.

Gary Lineker is a virtue signalling puppet. RIP Maradona 🙏

The spectacle of seeing Gary Lineker heaping praise on such a drug addict cheat is disgraceful.

THE HAND OF GOD .

Lineker = champagne socialist

Maradona and pele are the best look back then the ball was worse the pitch is worse not same level of technology and training

Gary Lineker is the definition of An English Gentleman!!!

Talk about skill and achievements, but the character to have constantly got back up after assault after assault. He used to get attacked and he's still pick the ball up and drive at his man. Inspirational courage.

Gary we will come to that decision later linekar

Came here for Diego, left in fits by Crouch’s ‘tache😂😂😂😂

Can't stand Gary Lineker normally but he does tell a good story

Truly for me the greatest footballer of all time. Diego Armando Maradona!

Lineker said straightright,whatsever, the best ever !

Couldn't go a minute without mentioning Messi again.

Couldn’t resist a dig. Diego is 100 Gary linekers🖕🖕🖕🖕

Gary Lineker. "heartfelt"??? He is too far up his own arse to see anything but the (questional) reality of his own opinion

BBC hypocrite applauds a druggie cheat. Well worth the licence fee alone ( for the mugs who pay it ).

A man with a moral vacuum.....A very tardy human being.

Goat Maradona. Goat Messi . We love soccer ❤❤

Oh my God Madonna has died, loved her music, like a virgin was my favorite ♥️🥴♥️🥴♥️

Diego Armando Maradona the best of the best of the best of the best of the best of the best of the best of the best of the best of the best of the best of the best of the best of the best of all times

It's weird seeing him paying a tribute to Maradona despite the fact that Maradona cheated and knocked out England's best squad since the 1960's out of the World Cup.

This is so romantic.

Gary gran jugador gran ser humano abrazo crackkk y gracias por querer a diego 👏

Todos, todos amábamos al Diego, grande ídolo.

Great tribute.yes it would have been ok to applaud

seriously? the man was an out and out ,blatant cheating druggie.

I love these stories from Gary❤️

its hard to plan to mark a guy taking performance enhancing drugs , who hand balls it into the net

bAng

Este tipo es, literalmente, un caballero inglés. Sos un maestro, Gary. Y no lo digo porque hable con tanta admiración y respeto sobre Diego. Es una buena persona, un jugador que terminó su carrera sin que le hayan sacado una sola amarilla siquiera, en ningún partido. En ninguno! Amable, conciliador, un buen tipo ♥️

Traducción please in spanish ?! 🇦🇷

Gracias Gary ❤️!

Gary, like Maradona belonged to a golden generation composed by fantastic football players, and one of them was Diego. He's famous to this day by the Hand of God in that football match Argentina - England in Mexico 86'.

Rex Diego ! RIP !

He's a goon

I tried to do the thing that Mara tried to do but failed. Rip Diego 💙🤍🇦🇷

Maradonna. Cheat. FULL STOP.

Great tribute from a true sportsman! Thanks for the memories Maradona, thanks for a wonderful tribute Gary Linekar!

the key point here, which lineker doesn't express clearly here, is that the ball 'comes down' but bounces before maradona helps it back up with a kick. some people may think maradona just kicks it back up without the ball hitting the ground first. that would be impossible and perhaps that's what these pundit players are thinking as lineker doesn't make it clear - lineker just says and it came back down. letting the ball bounce first is far more possible. i'd say the likes of messi and others would master that no problem, if it's not something they do naturally.

2:01 yes exactly....

Maradona The Best of the Best Rest in Peace!

Lineker grande campione e grande uomo , saluti dall'Italia , rip Diego , rip Paolo🧡

Gary is a gentleman

Well said Gary. Bst player i have ever seen, including Messi and Georgie Best, and Im Irish

He was sadly fouled by his opposition many times...these days the Red Card would have been shown!!!! I will be producing a list of Fowler’s shortly!!! 😀

The best!!!!

Maradonna. RIP. Loved the song ' Like a virgin' .

2:02 Owen's face says it all

Gary always brilliant ,spot on, greetings from Uruguay

If FIFA had the same rules as cycling he woulda been stripped of his World Cup medal.

This is priceless. My eternal respect to both Lineker and Maradona.

My grandpa comes from naples and he sais that Maradona was more important for him than everyone and that hé Saw a match of himwhere hè scores twice and he was like a God for them we Will mis him

Fuc off ya dog Gary L. Where's ya refugee ??

How would Gary know what it’s like? He was never in his own half

My respect for Gary, he really feel admiration for Diego. Regards from Argentina.

What a tribute from Gary, we will miss Maradona so much. What Gary has said about England team vs Maradona, I think it's an honest explanation. Even the Italians tried so hard to stop him, as we all know they had many legendary defenders

Boca Juniors.. ❤🇦🇷 .......⚽......10.

Gary Linekar is such a wonderful orator.. he made us visualize the goal so wonderfully..

The woke one relativising cheating ...

Gary is not only a great player with no red cards, but also a true British Gentleman.

Typical

Petite dynamite genius. Rip Maradona. 🙏

My respect for Gary Lineker , the best player of England's football. Really !!

My god, what a pleasure is listening to Gary. Such a humble, clear man. Respect.

i lost mij idool

Without Drugs. Maradona will be better than Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi together.

Gracias Gary por tus palabras, emocionantes recuerdos con Maradona. Un gran abrazo de un argentino que te admira!

In terms of ability of handling the Ball, he was the best ever

Very touching amazing. I still feel his loss for some reason 🙏

Maradona is the best player of football in the world of all the time. RIP Maradona ❤️🔟⚽️

despues de ver el documental es exactamente todo como lo conto jaja

Words fail me !!!!! Diego forever

Maradona's ability is much better than Pele's ability in Football ....

I still think England should of man marked him in that game,I was stunned when I only recently discovered they had no special plans for maradonna that day,man marking does and has worked many times against great players,and yes I know he was a genius and it may not of worked,but then again it might of,Robson should of picked his fittest best tackler and had his team prepare him to stick to maradonna like glue every single move he made in that match

I got the feeling that Maradona thought Lineker was a deuchbag when he met him, he was mocking him, Maradona wouldnt like people like Lineker

Great way to pay your tribute Gary

Gary Lineker BIG GENTLEMAN! Respectfully yours from Uruguay!!

Pele is no doubt the best and greatest football player ever, but also possibly the greatest sporting phenomenon ever to grace this earth, especially in terms of achievements, and here's why. I'm sorry, until any player can win 3 world cups and almost 4, and change how a sport is played, reinventing the game completely, and be so influential to a country that had never won a world cup to help them win at the age of seventeen for the first time, coming from poverty to dominate everything about the game and then have every player after and since him including Maradona and Messi copying him and trying to match him in style of play and achievements to this day, until another player is even close to this, Pele is no doubt not only the best football player ever, but possibly the biggest sporting phenomenon ever. And there is a reason for this. Both his right and left foot could do anything with the ball and we're just as good as eachother as a fact, not metaphorically speaking and no other player, not even Maradona or Messi have been blessed with this weapon, most especially to this degree. Watch how from outside the box, Pele strikes the ball with equal accuracy and power to score his goals, there is no other great that can do that. And yes he achieved all he did at a time when not just poverty, but racism at great extremes was against him, and at a time fouling brutally was allowed even more ruthlessly than in Maradona's time, and yes the pitches were even worse.

Diego was the golden ball winner of the 86 world cup the best player. Lot of people doesn't know that Gary linaker was the golden boot winner being the top scorer of that same world cup.

Brilliant heartfelt tribute by Linekar.. Rest in peace Maradona! Thanks for the wonderful memories!

Great tribute Gary, love how the younger pundits are asking questions on him and in awh of his ability.

He walked more than 3 steps, why talking good about maradroga at any cost???He wasn't that great football player

The Definition of the word HERO! MARADONA!!!

Maradona, God, Lineker, gentleman ever

Linekar : worthy winner of the golden boot award at the 86 cup , something Marodona couldn't achieve.

That actually is impossible! Owens face says it all! R.I.P Diego! Absolute legend!

Llorar

Lineker restoring some English respectability after Peter Shilton’s disgraceful behaviour last week.

So much CLASS from Gary. Respect. 👌👏

line aker has everything planned thats how he makes his profit. he should be working for tabloids, that is his big misfortune , only he'd be afraid of his tail being stepped on

Lots of respect for Lineker on this one, Diego was the greatest of all, it just wasn't all about the football. The humility about himself and the respect for his teammates, the love for his country all added to his icon status. The hand of God goal, give me a break, Diego was 5'5 inches tall and Shilton was supposedly 6'0 foot and he beat him with his hand to the ball, fcuk off and own up to it Peter.

Fantastic tribute, very touching.

Gracias Gary, un verdadero caballero y un cra también. De vos, esto significa mucho.